Many cultures have preferred to track time and the cycles of nature with the moon, rather than the sun. As we finish off this series celebrating the return of the sun, we’ll take a moment to sit with the other side of things.

Like many of these traditions we’ve covered, using the lunar calendar can be found from ancient cultures all across the globe. It seems that sense humans have existed, we have looked to the heavens for some sense of why or how. The earliest of us paid reverence to the patterns of the world and our place in the universe.